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Robinbot

Name: Robinbot
Author: Robin Education

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Robin automatically scans school websites in the UK, providing compliance checks against statutory requirements. Operated by Robin Education.

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Assessment

Monitoring & Analytics

What is Robinbot?

Robinbot is a web crawler operated by Robin Education. Robin automatically scans school websites in the UK, providing compliance checks against statutory requirements.

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name

Robinbot

Operator

Robin Education

Why it crawls your site

Robinbot crawls websites to monitor website availability, performance, and analytics. It is operated by Robin Education as part of their monitoring and analytics infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow Robinbot

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for Robinbot in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block Robinbot from crawling your entire site
User-agent: Robinbot
Disallow: /

# Allow Robinbot full access
User-agent: Robinbot
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows Robinbot. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Robin Education's documentation.